It stars Jaeden Lieberher, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lills, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, and Bill Skarsgard, and follows a group of kids known as “The Losers Club” who must face their biggest fears when they square off against an ancient evil who takes the form of a clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence in Derry, Maine dates back for centuries.

The top foreign number came from the United Kingdom with an opening day of $4.6 million at 1,342 screens for an 86% share of the top five films in the market.

The previous all-time domestic opening record for the month of September belonged to 2015’s Hotel Transylvania 2, which pulled in $48.5 million. That number was the biggest opening day for a horror film and the best launch day for a Warner Bros. title this year.

Deadpool still holds the title for biggest opening weekend for an R-rated feature with a $135 million in February of 2016.

This is also an impressive figure for 2017 as a whole, which has seen flop after flop in an increasingly tough market.

It will mark the largest domestic opening since Spider-Man: Homecoming in July. IT’s performance is very welcome in Hollywood, which has been struggling after the summer box office hit its lowest figures in 20 years. For a movie that cost $35 million to make and was expected to make $75 million from the most generous predictions before this weekend, this is a huge opening for Warner Bros.

IT can partly thank the lack of competition for its success.

Warner Bros.’ It movie is proving to be a beast at the box office. Critics gave the Andres Muschietti film an 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 71/100 on Metacritic while ticket buyers graded IT a “B+” on CinemaScore.

Elsewhere- despite bad reviews, Reese Witherspoon and friends raked in around $10 million for “Home Again“.

Rounding out the top five was The Weinstein Company’s Wind River with $3.2 million from 2,890 theaters. Almost two-thirds of the opening weekend crowds for the big screen debut of Pennywise were over the age of 25.